A.  No person, firm, corporation, association or other organization shall commence the erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, improvement, repair, removal, or demolition of any building or structure (including signs, except as specified in Article XXIX, Signs), nor install heating equipment, nor undertake any other work which must conform to New York State’s Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code or the Energy Code Supplement found at Chapter 144: Energy Code Supplement of the Code of the Town of Ithaca, without having applied for and obtained a building permit from a Code Enforcement Officer pursuant to Chapter 125 of the Code of the Town of Ithaca. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no building permit shall be required under those circumstances specified in § 125-4A of the Code of the Town of Ithaca for which no building permit is required.

B.  No permit to build shall be issued except pursuant to written order of the Board of Appeals, where the proposed construction, alteration, or use would be in violation of any provision of this chapter or would occur on a parcel on which a violation of any provision of this chapter exists. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this subsection shall not prohibit the issuance of a permit to repair or replace a roof or another element of a structure that needs such repair or replacement in order to maintain the structure’s integrity in the determination of the Director of Code Enforcement, even if there is an existing violation of this chapter on the parcel.